Amends: 100 Acts to replace references to penalties expressed as a number of dollars with penalties expressed as a number of penalty units; 27 Acts to replace references to ‘maximum penalty’ with references to ‘penalty’; 32 Acts to provide that provisions relating to the evidentiary status of a certificate (or other instrument or register) clearly provide that it is prima facie evidence of the matters stated in it; and the

Antarctic Treaty (Environment Protection) Act 1980

,

Crimes (Aviation) Act 1991

,

Crimes (Currency) Act 1981

and

Maritime Powers Act 2013

to update references to aircraft registered in accordance with the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988.

to establish a minimum repayment threshold for HELP debts of two per cent when a person’s income reaches $51 957 in the 2018-19 financial year; and replace the Higher Education Grants Index with the consumer price index for the purposes of indexing all grants and regulated student contribution amounts; the

Higher Education Support Act 2003

and

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

to discontinue the HECS-HELP benefit from 1 July 2017; the

Social Security Act 1991

,

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

,

Farm Household Support Act 2014

and

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

to discontinue the job commitment bonus; the

Australian Renewable Energy Agency Act 2011

to reduce the agency’s available appropriation; the

Private Health Insurance Act 2007

to pause the income thresholds for the Medicare levy surcharge and the government rebate on private health insurance for a further three years from 1 July 2018; the

National Health Reform Act 2011

to abolish the National Health Performance Authority; the

Aged Care Act 1997

to: increase the secretary’s compliance powers in relation to reviews of care recipient appraisals submitted by aged care providers to receive Commonwealth subsidies; abolish adviser and administrator panel arrangements; and require approved providers to notify the secretary of certain changes to any of its key personnel in certain circumstances; the

Age Discrimination Act 2004

,

Dental Benefits Act 2008

and

Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973

to close the Child Dental Benefits Schedule from 31 December 2016 and establish the Child and Adult Public Dental Scheme from 1 January 2017; the

to remove the exemption from the 104 week newly arrived resident’s waiting period for new migrants who are family members of Australian citizens or long-term permanent residents; the

Social Security Act 1991

,

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

and

Student Assistance Act 1973

to cease the student start-up scholarship payment from 1 July 2017; five Acts to apply an interest charge to outstanding debts owed by former recipients of social welfare payments who have failed to enter into, or have not complied with, an acceptable repayment arrangement; five Acts to enable the making of departure prohibition orders to prevent certain social welfare debtors from leaving the country; the

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

,

Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

,

Social Security Act 1991

and

Student Assistance Act 1973

to remove the six-year limit on welfare debt recovery; the

Social Security Act 1991

and

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

to provide that parental leave payments and dad and partner pay payments are included in the income test for income support payments; the

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

,

Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

and

Social Security Act 1991

to change the way fringe benefits are treated under the income tests for family assistance and youth income support payments and for related purposes; the

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

to align carer allowance and carer payment start day provisions; the

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

and

Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

to pause indexation for family tax benefit (FTB) Part A, the primary earner income limit for FTB Part B and the Paid Parental Leave income limit for a further three years from 1 July 2017;

Social Security Act 1991

and

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

to remove the pension income and assets test exemptions currently available to pensioners in aged care who rent out their former home and pay their aged care accommodation costs by periodic payments; the

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

and

Social Security Act 1991

to remove the exemption from the income test for FTB Part A recipients and the exemption from the parental income test for certain dependent young people receiving youth allowance and ABSTUDY living allowance; the

Social Security Act 1991

to provide that certain persons cannot be paid social security payments when they are in psychiatric confinement because they have been charged with a serious offence; six Acts to prevent new recipients of welfare payments or concession cards from being paid the energy supplement from 20 March 2017; the

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

to reduce the refundable and non-refundable rates of the tax offset available under the research and development tax incentive for the first $100 million of eligible expenditure; six Acts to require larger entities to provide payroll and superannuation information at the time it is created through the single touch payroll reporting framework; and the

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

to create a single appeal path for the review of original determinations made by the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission.

to: establish the Registered Organisations Commission and provide it with investigation and information gathering powers to monitor and regulate registered organisations; and provide for the appointment, functions and powers of the commissioner (who will assume the investigations, enforcement advice and assistance responsibilities in relation to registered organisations currently undertaken by the General Manager of the Fair Work Commission); and

Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

to: amend the requirements on officers’ disclosure of material personal interests and change grounds for disqualification and ineligibility for office; increase financial accounting and disclosure obligations for registered organisations and their officers; and increase civil penalties and introduce criminal offences for serious breaches of officers’ duties and new offences in relation to the conduct of investigations.

to amend the definition of unlawful terms to include an objectionable emergency management term that cannot be included in an enterprise agreement that covers a designated emergency management body; and provide that certain volunteer bodies can make submissions to the Fair Work Commission in relation to enterprise agreements or workplace determinations that affect, or could affect, the volunteers of a designated emergency management body.